Do goats eat arundo (giant reed)?
Yes — and goats reach it where machines can't.
Arundo donax chokes California riverbeds and canyons, growing bamboo-like canes to twenty feet, guzzling water, and burning ferociously. It grows precisely where control is hardest: soft riparian ground that won't support machinery, in watersheds where herbicide use is restricted.
Goats and sheep eat arundo's leaves and young shoots, and grazing programs have been used along Southern California rivers for suppression and fire-risk reduction. As with kudzu, the rhizomes are the enemy — repeat defoliation weakens them, and grazing pairs well with cut-and-remove programs by keeping regrowth in check afterward.
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